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by Keith Langlois
Web Editor
The first bit of adversity Stan Van Gundy faced after taking Tom Gores up on his offer to run the Pistons wasn't Brandon Jennings' ruptured Achilles tendon. It wasn't the jigsaw quandary posed by trying to squeeze Josh Smith, Greg Monroe and Andre Drummond into the same lineup. It wasn't even the preseason back injury to Jodie Meeks that threw his rotation out of whack for the first quarter of the regular season.
No, the first bit of rotten luck to befall the Van Gundy era came less than a week into the job when the Cleveland Cavaliers – who else?